Jewellery, for me, is always hands on - it must entice the wearer in: to connect with the piece, to touch it, turn it their hand, to want to wear it.

My work is an attempt to take this a stage further - creating pieces to be handled, and in the handling to become items or reassurance and meditation for the wearer - exploring the nature of therapeutic objects and the psychological benefits of creativity and touch.

I have been making jewellery since stringing beads and then taking silversmithing evening classes as a teenager. I studied at Loughborough University where I gained my BA in Jewellery and Silversmithing in 1999. Since then I worked in the charity sector for some years, while keeping up my jewellery making in my free time, until being able to return full time to my love of making when I started teaching jewellery making in 2009.

I completed my MA in Jewellery at the Cass (London Metropolitan University) in 2015 and am continuing working on my passion of tactile jewellery, creating a variety of one off pieces, all of which are designed specifically as taslismans to be held - to occupy the hands and allow a distraction or relief from daily stresses.

Currently; -I am working from a space in Craft Central, Clerkenwell, London.I am one of the artists in residence in the jewellery & silversmithing department at the Cass.I teach privately from my own workshop, as well as regularly at the London Jewellery School, at the Mary Ward Centre and for Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning Service.I co-ordinate the Pass It Along Project - a collaboration project for jewellers looking for a challenge, now in its second year.